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Portrait of a Gentleman/Mourning Piece
Accession # 21.476
Artist Unknown
Title Portrait of a Gentleman/Mourning Piece
Date ca. 1797
Medium Watercolor on ivory or porcelain (?), framed in metal locket with glass lenses
Dimensions Image (sight): 2 3/4 x 2 13/16 in. (7 x 7.1 cm) Frame: 3 1/16 x 3 1/16 in. (7.8 x 7.8 cm)
Inscriptions On pedestal of grave in mourning image: "JP [monogram] / OB: 15 AUG: 1797 / AET: 11 YEARS / 6 MONTHS"
Credit Line Bequest of Samuel E. Haslett
Location Visible Storage: Case 30, Shelf A (Sculpture)
Description Recto: portrait of older man with gray wig and reddish sideburns; wears navy jacket over pink vest and white stock; holds book with proper right hand; seascape in background with small ship on horizon at left and large full-sailed ship on right. Verso: mourning scene with male and female mourners flanking pyramidal grave raised on block pedestal; weeping willow tree painted on reverse of convex glass lens.